Not so long ago trash icon began to disappear if I place anything into the bin or empty it. When I refresh the desktop by changing its mode from “folder view” to “desktop” and back or if I rename the icon it reappears but not permanently. Has anyone ever faced similar issue?
I’ve tried removing the icon and creating it anew but it didn’t seem to work at all.
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Same experience here.
But my perspective is ,"why do I need a trash icon (it’s a Windows thing). I know if I’m gonna delete a file, and do so.
My fix was to delete the Trash icon and create it again. Reminder: I never use it.
KDE 5 here, not version 6. And never Wayland.
Got the same thing. When i delete a file from my desktop, the trashbin disappears. After rebooting, its back though.
I did some digging around and came across these error messages:
After this I decided to check whether or not this problem exists on a fresh install of Tumbleweed and it sure does. So it seems like its caused by some faulty update and all we can do for now is wait for a patch.
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The Trash icon doesn’t disappear here, but it occasionally seems to have a need to move to what would be the top row of the screen upon login, instead of staying at the lower left corner of the screen. 
When there is no bug-report, the waiting may be very long.
Created a new trash bin:
cp /usr/share/kservices5/kcmtrash.desktop ~/Desktop/trash.desktop
While the existing one disappeared upon emptying the new one stays on the desktop.
It’s been reported the day after I made this post, so yeah, we just have to wait
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An update to my post above.
The trash icon has started to disappear, once a file was placed into Trash.
This is pretty amusing. I’d not noticed this since the first thing I do is “ls > .hidden” to hide icons but yeah I see same thing. Has to be a super common problem in 6.0.4 plasmashell. Seems like first rounds of bug fixes in plasma 6 generated a lot of issues?
In some cases, when I move something to trash, it renames trash.desktop file (actual file not the displayed Name) to “trash:⁄.desktop” as well. Renaming back fixed it but I think that’s just because any new .desktop file will show again otherwise only a plasmashell --refresh or something seems to work to display again.
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